IN the early years of this century, the Aurora Nova programme of visual and physical theatre illuminated the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

The New American Theatre and Not Man Apart–Physical Theatre Ensemble's spellbinding collaboration of Lear Redux is a must-see ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

The story centers around King Lear, an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters—Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia—based on their expressions of love for him. To test their ...

So it was with Kim Krumm Sorenson’s stunning silks for Lear, Cordelia and Regan. In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, director Jackson Gay strips the ...

ADVERTISEMENT King Lear typically runs to about three hours ... Jessica Revell plays both Fool and Cordelia—and only the program revealing that will make you notice, so different does Revell ...

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo ... with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing up his kingdom?

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... so devastated was he by Cordelia’s death. Seventy-five years after the play was first performed, Nahum Tate rewrote it with a rosier ending.

Johan Persson, Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh during rehearsals of King Lear with Hughie O’Donnell (who plays Cornwall), Jessica Revell (Cordelia/The Fool), and Ayla Wheatley (Attendant).

Cordelia is correct that Lear is vain for ... No one gets a happy ending in “King Lear” – not the children who reject their parents, and most certainly not the parents, who need their ...